Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" 2024-05-10 A retroactive favorite with fans

A retroactive favorite with fans

plus contributions from The Pogues and Circle Jerks

2LP set on 180-gram vinyl in gatefold jacket with gold-embossed logo sleeve

Released at the height of Britpop mania it shows the maturation of songwriters Norman Blake

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" 2024-05-10 A retroactive favorite with fansDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that